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A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors From the Silent Era by Alexander Jacoby 340 pp, 6 x 9”, paper, 20 B/W photos, |
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This important work fills the need for a popularly priced yet critical and comprehensive volume on over 150 major directors in the history of Japanese film. Included are artistic profiles of everyone from Yutaka Abe to Isao Yukisada, including masters like Kinji Fukasaku, Juzo Itami, Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Miike, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Yoji Yamada. Each entry includes a critical summary and filmography. UK-based Alexander Jacoby is a writer and researcher on Japanese film. Donald Richie is a film critic, the foremost explorer of Japanese culture in English, and author of the acclaimed travel diary/novel The Inland Sea |
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